Hudson Mohawk Magazine

Tasheca Medina, community activist and leader of Equality for Troy, gives a presentation to Troy Prep Media Club students about how to get started in activism.

On April 19, 2021, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent, Willie Terry, attended a virtual Moral Monday rally sponsored by the Poor People's Campaign. They made a national announcement of plans for a Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington. In part two of this labor segment, you will hear Rev. Dr. William J. Barber III speak about the reasons for the plan Moral March.

On April 19, 2021, the Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent, Willie Terry, attended a virtual Moral Monday rally sponsored by the Poor People's Campaign. They made a national announcement of plans for a Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington. In part one of this labor segment, you will hear Rev. Dr. William J. Barber III speak about the plans for the Moral March.

This past week, Trayvon Jackson of the African American Cultural Center announced his organization's purchase of the old McDonalds on South Pearl Street for renovation into a much-needed food market for Albany's South End, to be managed by the existing South Pearl store, El Pilon. By Paul Smart

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

We begin with a preview of the Earth Day rally at 4 PM Thursday 22 April at Congress member Paul Tonko’s office calling on him to be a climate champion and oppose fossil fuels

Then, for our peace segment, we talk with David Swanson of World Beyond War.

Later on, Scott Kellogg, presenter at the upcoming Sustainable Futures Conference, speaks about Urban Ecosystem Justice

After that, we talk with the Director of the Damian Center in Albany and their work on AIDS.

Finally, we talk with the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice about the racial disparities in parole release rates.

Scott Kellogg, Educational Director of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center, talks with HMM's Sina Basila Hickey about his session for The Sustainable Futures Conference taking place from April 27 - 30.

About his session, “Urban Ecosystem Justice”:

Strategies for promoting just sustainabilities and ecological literacy by applying analyses of equity, fairness, race, and class to urban soils, food, water, atmospheres, compost, and biocultural diversity.

To learn more about the conference, visit www.sustainablefuturesconference.com and for more information on Scott Kellogg's section, https://www.sustainablefuturesconference.com/breakout-session-leaders/scott-kellogg

HMM Correspondent Dulcinia Diggs spoke with Perry Junjulas, the Executive Director of Albany Damien Center. The Damien Center focuses on living with H.I.V and provides tools to help cope with A.I.D.S. Perry Junjulas explains how much the medicine for A.I.D.S. has advanced since the disease was first discovered in 1981. To learn more about the Albany Damien Center go to

Albany Damien Center Website: wwwAlbanyDamienCenter.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/albanydamiencenter

Twitter: twitter.com/AlbanyDamienCtr

U=U: www.untransmittable.org

Survivors of crime and violence and survivor advocates are working together in support of Parole Reform. Chelsea Miller talks about the racial disparities in parole release rates. Survivors want healing and accountability, and shorter sentences could help reunite families. If you want to get involved with the People's Campaign for Parole Justice go to: http://rappcampaign.com/

As part of National Crime Victims Week, NYSCASA in partnership with the People's Campaign for Parole Justice will host a Parole Justice & Survivor Justice Advocacy Day on Thursday April 22. To register for this event go to: https://www.nyscasa.org/calendar/

Interview by HMM Correspondent Aileen Javier.

On Thursday, April 22, the Albany School District Board of Trustees is looking to pass a proposed budget for the coming school year, which will then go up for a public vote in May, along with all other school district budgets in the state. While dry, the specifics of such budget processes is a vital function of democracy, and the only place where voters can approve or disapprove spending plans directly. Paul Smart reports.

Every ten years following the U.S. Census, states must redraw lines that divide communities into legislative districts. New lines are drawn to ensure that each voter in a shifting population has equal representation in congressional, state Senate and state Assembly districts. Because the stakes are so high, the process is fraught with political influence. In 2014, New York voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission that is set to take over the redistricting process beginning this year. In the first of a multi-part series on New York's redistricting process, HMM correspondent Corinne Carey spoke with Richard Rifkin, former Legal Director at the Government Law Center at Albany Law School and current member of the Albany County League of Women Voters, and the county's delegate on redistricting to the League of Women Voters of New York State (LWVNYS). Richard and Corinne talked about the basics of redistricting, the origin of the term "gerrymandering," and fairness in the process. LWVNYS is holding a People's Hearing on New York State Redistricting on Thursday, April 29th from 6:30 pm -8:00 pm. Listeners can find out more about the Hearing by visiting the Facebook page for the League of Women Voters of NYS.